How to Use hard rock in a Sentence

hard rock

noun
  • To know a hard rock is on the way.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Linkin Park has now pushed an even dozen tracks to the hard rock chart.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • But this one is mostly for the first pumping hard rock lovers.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Confidence is a big hard rock that's not easy to get rolling.
    — Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Who would have guessed that hard rock could also be so gentle?
    — Catherine Bray, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But hold the hard rock — there's no need to get super intense.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2015
  • The reissue has led to a growth in both streams and sales of the beloved hard rock effort.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Suzanne came with her 18-year-old daughter, who is a fan of the hard rock group.
    — Andrew Darosa, Connecticut Post, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Metallica will be the first hard rock/metal band to play the venue.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2026
  • On April 28, the drilling crew hit an area of hard rock and the drill pipe snapped.
    — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The album is soulful mix of hip-hop, hard rock, neo-soul, and, of course, pure pop.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
  • He was loved for his melodic hard rock, nasally vocals and down-to-earth style.
    — Bloomberg.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Linkin Park is far and away one of the most successful hard rock bands of all time.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The band tore through more than two hours of hard rock, left the stage, returned for the encore and left again.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Jimmy Page is, and always will be, a titan in the hard rock world.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • This song is in the psychedelic rock, hard rock and blues rock genres.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the hard rock band 3 Doors Down, has died.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
  • There are legends in the world of hard rock, and then there’s Ozzy Osbourne.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And weak rocks break down to mud faster than hard rocks, so sand tends to be made of the harder types that break down slowly.
    — David R. Montgomery, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
  • Takaichi is a hard rock and heavy metal music fan and was an avid drummer in her college days.
    — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Van Halen were the new kings, soon to inspire the next wave of successful hard rock bands.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This molten rock begins to melt the rock above it, and that melted rock, less dense than the hard rock around it, rises.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Yeah Yeahs, and the pounding hard rock of Queens of the Stone Age.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2023
  • A number of hard rock, emo, and metal bands will be taking the stage this year, along with some rap legends.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Most lithium today comes from salty underground brines or hard rock mining.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Leading the way on both counts was lead singer, David Lee Roth, the clown prince of hard rock.
    — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
  • He was drawn to nu-metal and hard rock as well as rap, and tried to teach himself how to play the guitar and the piano.
    — Corinna Burford, Vulture, 9 June 2022
  • What’s that like to be the only guitar on stage for a hard rock band like The Warning?
    — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Then, on April 28, the drilling crew hit an unexpected area of hard rock.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Does their success — and Hardy’s pivot to hard rock — spell the looming end of bro-country?
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023

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